
In-memory Orchestrate Local Development Database
I was talking with Tory Adams @BEZEI2K about working with Orchestrate‘s Services. We’re totally sold on what they offer and are looking forward to a lot of the technology that is in the works. The day to day building against Orchestrate is super easy, and setting up collections for dev or test or whatever are so easy […]

Nurturing the market for Data Markets
From Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace to the eponymous DataMarket, or InfoChimps, Factual, and Kasabi, there’s resurgent interest in the venerable business of collecting, curating, and commercialising data created by others. But despite investment and innovation, there isn’t yet the matching evidence for much use or — even — interest amongst prospective customers. In principle, at least, these data markets […]

Yahoo Embraces Cloud Storage
I have documented Yahoo Inc.’s Cloud Computing efforts in this space many times already. They are doing some classy work on projects like Hadoop, etc.. What about their own use of Cloud Computing internally? There was not much info about it till recently. Now, the company has announced how they are tapping into a Cloud […]